The Brussels Post, 1909-5-13, Page 2THE IYSTEIIIOIIS KEY
OR, PLANNING POE THE
FUTURE,
CHAPTER I,
"Gerald—It cannot be true."
"It is true "
There was a ring of triumph and
jay in the voles; of the young man
who spoke, and the sweet-faced wo-
man thrilledat the tone of . con-
fielenee with which the words were
• uttered,
"I cannot comprehend. It is all
so strange. What a complication."
"I have the proofs here," said
Gerald Winchester, as he held up
the papers in Ms hand.
It was, indeed, a strange situa-
tion ; the ,young man who, but a
short time before, had been but a
clerk in the office of the wealthy
banker, Adam Brewster, now stand-
ing proudly, with the mystery of
his birth cleared by the strange re-
velations that the ancient foot -stool
had furnished, as the son and heir
of the dead millionaire.
Lady Bromley, who had been
chiefly instrumental in the discov-
ery of the precious documents in
their strange hiding -place, gazed at
her protege with eyes kindling with
joy.
"Ah, Gerald!" she cried eagerly;
let me seethe papers, It seems al-
most incredible,"
"Seel" he said excitedly, as he
handed a paper to the woman;
"this is a .certificate proving the
marriage of Miriam Harris to
Adam Brewster, in the year 18—,
and here, dated a little less than a
year afterward, is another to cer-
tify to the baptism of Gerald Win-
chester .Brewster."
"Then—then you are not the son
of Miss Winchester's brother, as
you have al -ways supposed!" said
Lady Bromley, after she had care-
fully examined the papers which
he had given her,
"No, it seems not; at least, if
my surmises are correct," Gerald
replied, but with a look of perplex-
ity sweeping over his face. "Every-
thing seems terribly confused, as
yet, and, possibly, I may have
jumped at conclusions somewhat
prematurely, but I hope not. You 1t
see, there was a lot of rubbish ins
that thing"—with a glance at the
overturned cricket upon the floor,)
"Perhaps I should not creak of it'
in that way; but, at any rate, it'
seemed like rubbish to me when I1
was looking it over; but, at the bot -1
tom, I came across a bulky enve-!
lope addressed to me in my aunt's
hand. In it were these papers, and
several sheets which she had filled,
and which will doubtless explain
everything."
"But who was Miriam Harris?"
questioned her ladyship, still study-
ing the certificate.
Gerald turned back to the table
and gathered up a couple of other
papers lying there.
"Miriam Harris, according to
these documents, was the only child;
of Martha Winchester, who married
a certain Arthur Harris in 18—,
some twenty-five years previous to
the dateof those slips
that you
have. She must have been ayoun-
ger sister of Aunt Honor's, which
would make the latter my great-
gphetesreeV 's about the lord of high de -
"Well, in a certain sense, you
were," he said, with an answering
smile, "for although Mr. Brewster
was invested with no title, he was
an honest, noble man, which means
more to me than any appellation,
however exalted, and I am vet',f
proud of being the son of such a fa-
ther ;
a-ther; only there will always be a
sense of irreparable logs on ao-
count of our mutual ignorance of
the fact."
"Yes, that does seem too bad,"
returned his friend, with a regret-
ful sigh; "there are so many things
that are too bad in this queer
world of ours. Of course, you can-
not feel otherwise than gratified
over this remarkable discovery; and
if Mr. Brewster could have known
that you were his son, I am sure
he would have been as proud of the
relationship as yourself. It will
certainly be a great comfort to
you, throughout the remainder of
your life to remember that you
were his constant companion for
some years, and that during that
time you enjoyed his full confi•
dence."
"Yes, indeed, from the depths of
my soul I am grateful for those
years of confidential companion-
ship; but, oh, his whole life seems
to have been enshrouded in mys-
tery, as well as my own; there was
his second marriage., and the dis-
covery that Allison was not his own
child--"
"Not his own child, Gerald !" re-
peated Lady Bromley, in surprise.
"No. I have not told you about
that. I have not been able to talk
very much about her, you know,"
he responded huskily;"but I will
relate the whole story to you same
time, after this puzzle is all
solved.." The details of thestory
of the death of the beautiful girt
in the railroad accident were al-
ways haunting him. "Then there
is that inexplicable story about the
present so-called Mrs. Adam Brew-
ster. Ha!—"
"Well—what 1" quickly inquired
her ladyship, as he broke off with
a• violent start, a strange luok
sweeping over bis face.
"Wait, wait!" be said almost
breathlessly, the veins filling out
suddenly upon his forehead, a
dusky red suffusing his face; "I will
tell you presently; excuse me a
moment while I
'know," she gently returned; then,
added,, with a alert: "But if you
can prove that your znother was
Adam Brewster's svifo it will
make
.that other certificate,
which the
present supposed Mrs,. Brewster
nd
us produced,yuwillabo founilld itnot
be the
sole heir to -the Brewster fortune
"Yes --at leaet, so it seems to
me," Gerald assented,
"Yon will try to prove it?"
"Assuredly, if I am convinced,
after my investigations in New
Haven, that there is the ghost of
chance for me. I have been bitte
ly unreconciled to' the fact th
John Hubbard has secured all th
wealth which, lb seemed to me u
til now, should have gone to M
()buries Manning, who is the elan
ter of Mr. Brewster's sister ; by
on the basis of the remarkable di
()every of to -day, T shall at on
begin to work for my own iutore
—after consulting with Mr, Lyttl
ton, of course; he will know i
scantly whether 'there will be a
chance for me Ea, hal" 1
laughed; out suddenly, as his mit
reverted to some circumstance
the past.
"Why do you laugh -what amu
es your inquired his friend.
She' was thrillingly interested i
his wonderful history, and did n
wish to lose a single point. i
"I was thinking of a certai
some three and a ha
years ago, when this man vowe
that he would crush me and ever
thing else that stood in his path,
the young man explained, "and
was wondering how he might feel
if the situation was destined to b
reversed."
Then he told her the little :tor
about the beautiful rose, which Al
lison had playfully thrown at hi
on that lovely summer day — how
John Hubbard had afterward pur-
posely knocked it to the floor and
ruthlessly set his heel upon it, and
warned him that it was typical of
his own fate.--
"But I have it even now,"' he
continued, opening a tiny locket
that was attached to his watch -
chain; "I carefully gathered up
every leaf and petal, and, later
laid them incased in this, vowing
that it should be my mascot, in-
stead of the symbol of my defeat
and ruin."
He then related, also, how the
man had tampered with his book-
keeping,, to make it appear that he
had been defrauding his employer,
t
e
li
a oellaneous collection of stook is
at kept, writes Prof, M. Cumming,
at in the annual report of the Secre-
te.tary of Agriculture for Nova Scotia,
Air the amount of fertility removed need
h not exceed about 10 per cent. of
t, that which would be removed under
s- the hay -and -grain systema of farm-
ee ing. The important problem that
ata remains is, how can the farmer get
of the 90 - per cent. voided in the man -
ns uro onto his fields without further
an loss? The solutions of this: •depends
le upon the care taken of the barn -
td yard manure, which is subject to
of great loss from two sources viz.,
leaching and fermentation. ¶io pre.
5- vent the former, he must prevent
the running away of the liquid
bmanure. To prevent the latter, he
must keep his manure from heating.
And to prevent both, he must take
as his general guide the getting of
If the manure on the fields, as soon
d as possible after it is made.
y, Suppose that a farmer, instead of
I selling the.two tons of hay produced
on an acre of land, feeds it to his
' dairy cows, marketing therefrom
e only butter and pork. The two tons
of hay, as ' above, contain $13.36
worth of fertility. There will be
m sold with these about 10 per cent.
of the fertility in hay, leaving
$12.03 worth of fertility on the farm.
Of this amount ,the equivalent of at
least two-thirds willreach the
fields. To this should be added the
value of the vegetable matter or.
humus in the barnyard manure, a
value which we can scarcely quote
in figures, but which constitutes, in
the main, the superiority of barn-
yard manure over commercial ferti-
lizers. The same principles can be
applied to all other fodders, and
in every case it will be found that,
from the standpoint of soil fertility,
it pays to feed all fodders except
those for which the market prices
are much in excess of their fertiliz-
ing value on the farm.
It is not long since a large por-
tion of the cottouseed meal pro-
duced was sold to be applied direct'
ly to the land as a fertilizer. Now
it is practically all fed to cattle,
with the result of not only increas-
ing the milk flow and adding to the
flesh, but of increasing the value of
the manure heap at the rate of over
$20 for each ton fed. Note, too,
the high value of bran as a ferti-
lizer. Through the medium of this,
much of the fertilizer of the Western
plains is now being transferred to
the East. Compare the relatively
low fertilizing value of corn with
the high value of linseed and cotton-
seed cake.
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On the Farm
STOCIf-RAISING ' AND SOIL
I+"E1i,TILITY.
From any farm on which a mis-
and how he had caused his arses
in the bank upon that fateful Sun
day morning,
"What a wretch!" indignantly
exclaimed Lady Bromley, when h
concluded. "I should"judge the
ho had been a sharper from his
`youth up. I wonder that so shrewd
a man as you bavo represented Mr.
Brewster should have become as-
isociated in business with him. But
I would really glory in seeing you
. win the Brewster fortune from
j him. Why, it seems to me that he
must have been scheming for it for
many years! lis jealousy of you,
r connection with Allison, whom,
it is evident, he intended to marry,
f possible; and then, when she
was so strangely removed, marry -
ng that other girl, who appeared
s the own and only daughter of
he banker—all seem to point to
that as the goal he was seeking."
"Yes; those are my views exact-
ly," said Gerald; "and his union
with this Miss Anna Brewster •was
the cleverest move of all, for to
him it would prove a bulwark of
safetyfor all time—providing favids
P ng no
other flaw was discovered in his
work. If he had simply employed
those women as accomplices, and
then let them go, after paying
them a certain price, he would al-
ways have been in danger of ex-
posure. Now, however, trey all
have a common interest, and he
never need fear any betrayal
through them. But, Mr. John Hub-
bard, I firmly believe that at last
I have found that `pebble' for my
sling 1" he concluded, with signi-
ficant emphasis,
"What do you mean, Gerald 1
cried Lady Bromley, laughing at
his peculiar tone and language.
"Enigmas appear to be the order
of this remarkable day."
He explained to her by relating
something of his interview with
Mr. Hubbard the day he had met
him on the Strand, in London,
when the man had twitted him with
being,a braggart in assuming to be
"a second David aching to slay
another Goliath."
"I believe I have found my peb-
ble in those papers which you hold
m your hands," he concluded, as
he pointed to him with a finger that
trembled visibly.
"I believe you have, too," she
gravely observed; "and"—laugh-
ingly using his own smile—"your
sling I know will never fail you
while there is a shred of evidence
left to prove your position, while
something seems to tell me that
you will have no diflieulty in prev-
ing yourself to be Mr. Brewster's
son and the only heir to his great
wealth."
"Ah 1 But what good.will ,it, do
me naw l" Gerald burst forge -with
sudden pain and passion. "It will
seem but a mockery --but the bit-
ter irony of fate. Oh, Allison ! Al-
lison ! What is anything in life to
me now that I have lost you?"
Lady Bromley could have wept
for him, for the anguish in his tone
was like a sharp arrow in her own
heart; but putting .a strong curb
upon herself, aha arose and went to
his side,
"Put these safely away, Gerald,"
y room," I
He sprang to the door, and was.!
gone Were she could detain hini.i-
The excitement of the remarkable, i
revelations was also telling upon
her, and, feeling almost exhausted,
she sank into a chair to rest, and a
to study anew the papers whlich t
she still retained.
Gerald was absent fully ten min-
utes, and when he returned he was
startlingly pale, while there was a
look of stern deteimination written
upon every line of his face.
Hed
lie some newspapers a '
sr n his
P
hands,
"There has been a vile plot at
work-! I said it! I knew it! And
ow I am more strongly convinced
of it than ever!" he said, almost
oarsely, he was so excited, "See
ere!" he went on, pointing to an
niche in one of the papers; "this
gives a full acount of that woman's
Mem upon Adam Brewster and
is estate. It also gives the date
f the certificate which she brought
o prove her marriage to him, and
t corresponds exactly with that.
pon the one you hold in your
ands—April 10, 18—, is it not 1"
"Yes," replied her ladyship, after
referring to the document in her
hands.
"Then do you not see --oh! ib is
all so plain to me now!" Gerald
ontinued eagerly. "John Hub •
and must have been at the bos-
om of all that Brewster scandal
and trial. He must have learned
by some means of Mr. Brewster's
early marriage, and that it was a
secret which no one besides him
self was supposed to know anything
about; and the man himself being
dead, and Allison also, the rest
was comparatively easy for such an
arch -plotter as he has always been.
He must bavo come across those re-
cords in New Haven, or else knownabout them, obtained the dates,
names, etc., procured an accom-
plice to help him carry out his
theme, by appearing as the wife
t that early marriage, and so man-
ged, an his usually clever manner,
to work up this romantic story and
case, which has thrown that mag-
nificent fortune into his hands."
"Your reasoning certainly sounds
very plausible, Gerald," responded
his friend,
"I shall go directly to New Ra-
ven to -morrow morning and search
those records for myself. I will
ascertain how a person whose mai-
en name was Louisa Simpson
outs.' have been passed off for sins
thee who was known as Miriam
anis, ' said Gerald, with consist.
rable warmth.
"All things ere possible, you
aunt, instead of my father's sister, n
as I have always` supposed her to
be. This, too, explains why she h
was so much older than seemed con- h
sistent, if she had been my own a
aunt. .I have always known that'
my mother's name was Miriam
Harris, but I supposed that elm h
married a Winchester," 0
"Well, it is all very, very t
strange," thoughtfully observed
Lady Bromley, "but I wonder why
the knowledge of it has been kept
from you 1 Why, if you are Adam
Brewster's son, were you not under
your father's care to profit by the
advantage and position which he
could have given you, instead of
being committed to the care of Mise e
Winchester, to be reared in such b
obscurity l" t
"That is a mystery to me as yet,"
replied Gerald, Berthing sensitively;
"but I presume that Aunt Honor's
letter will explain the matter.
"Ohl" he continued, with a pathe-
tic yearning in his voice, "why
could it not have been? It seems
cruel! Cruel 1 And now 'I can un-
derstate' why I was so peculiarly
drawn !lib Mail I often used to
say to myself, when we were work-
ing together in his office : `Ah! if
I could only have had such a fa-
ther, how proud and happy I should
have been? He, too, was fond of s
me, in a way, and he trusted me 0
instinctively from the first ; he once a
told me that he 'would stake his
fortune upon my faithfulness and
integrity.' I can now understand
why we were so drawn to each other
—it was the tie of blood, of kin-
ship, struggling for expression, for
recognition," he continued, a note
of exultation in his tones.
He was trembling visibly, and his
companion saw that it was with
great difficulty he, could preserve d
his self-control; e
"What did I tell yon, Gerald?" e
she saki, with a rogtiish smile, to I.1
change the tenor of hie thoughts, I c
"Was I not, after all, a true pro -
Not every farmer keeps an ac-
count with his soil, yet it is bard to
see how anyone, who accepts the
principles laid down in the preced-
ing paragraphs, can fail to estimate
the importance of knowing whether
his capital stock of soil fertility is
decreasing or increasing, for in this
way only can he expect profitable
returns from his field each suede
d-
ing year.
FARM NOTES.
It is a good plan to know and
note down the size of every field.
Measure a clothesline, tie a stake
at each end, and measure the field
both ways. Then you cae estimate
fertilizer, crops and land exactly.
Perhaps half the failures of the
average beekeeper to get a rousing
crop of honey are due to his neglect
to have his supplies in shape be-
fore the rush comes on. For this
reason it is the course of wisdom
to order supplies now and have the.
hives and sections ready for the
season,
It is moat profitable to use super-
phosphate with potatoes, keeping
the manure for putting in the other
crops and 'dressing the meadows.
Phosphate is applied very quickly
in the hill, in this way sprinkling it
over a space ten inches square
where we plant; and it also pro-
duces a better quality of potatoes,
with less liability to rob. A corres-
pondent has used at the rate of 300
or 400 ponds of phosphate to the
acre on about all the potatoes ' he
has planted.
One sided exhaustion, as it is
sometimes called, is a common eon
dition of land, but nob sufficiently
recognized. A knowledge of the
different plants, and the special
needs of the standard crops,, will
greatly assist in judging of the real'
condition and requirements of land
which may appear exhausted, If
land fails to yield a crop of corn or
potatoes, it does not followthat all
the chief elements of plant food are
she said, as she placed the certifi-
cates in hie hand; "then tread your
aunt's letter ---you do not half -know
your own history yet --for, doubt-
less, it contains a great deal that
will interest you, and, possibly.
some other important information,'
(To be continued.)
lacking, and must be Supplied.
Corn, clever, the grasses, potatoes
and cabbage are all large can-
t as
st mersa# pat h, and there is na
element of planbfood which in most
parts of the older states, is more
likely to be soon exhausted. An
application of potash alone • will
often cause land, to produce nearly
maximum crops which previously
seemed exhausted.
THE VAMPIRE..
Traveller's E!KI►arfeneo With the
Blood'Saokftig !bat.
Our grandfathers in their little -
boy days, reading in old-fashioned
geographies of tropical foreste and
savage beasts, found descriptionsof
hone, tigers and crocodiles cheer-
fully exciting; but snore than one
shivering youngster, at the dread
moment ofi blowing out his cham-
ber candle, wished he had never
heard of that uncanny and haunt
ing monster, the vampire, which
followed its victim to his very home
and bed, and in the darkness silent-
ly bled him to death as he slept.
Soieuoe has long modified this
fearsome tale. The vampire — the
blood -sucking bat of South Ameri-
ca—is not the huge, hovering hor-
ror he was onoe depicted. He is
but a little fellow, a winged car-
nivorous mouse, and he does not
slay his victims. But he does suck
blood, and is an extremely trou-
blesome nuisance. The late Rich-
ard Spruce, . in his "Notes of a
Botanist on the Amazon and An -1
des," tells of his experience with
the creatures, which particularly
infested his house at Sao Gabriel.
"When I entered it," he relates,
"there were large patches of dried-
up blood on the floor, which had
been drawn from my predecessors
by those midnight blood -letters,
and my two men were attacked the
first night, one of them having'
wounds on the ends pf four toes,
three on one foot, one on the other.
The same has happened every night
since, and the bats do not stop at
the toes, but bite occasionally on
the legs, finger -ends, nose, chin
and forehead—especially of-ciril-.
dren.
"As I wear stockings at night,
wrap myself well in my blanket and
cover my face with a handkerchief,
I have hitherto escaped being bit-
ten; but they often come, to my
hammock in search of a vulnerable
point.
"Surgeons boast of their painless
operations now -a -days, but the
vampire beats them all. I have
never met a person who was awak-
ened by a vampire biting him, but
several have had the vampire fas-
ten on them when awake, and these
confirm the aeoount of the animal
i ing •
fanning with h s wings h r vl i
i to sitalc-
ing,
"Tho wound shows a sound Piece
of skin—often the whole thickness
and .with some flesh besides, as
ono happened to myself—taken
completely out, as if out out with
a kn115.''
At the house of a neighbor, where
tate children had been much tor-
mented by the vampires, the family
eat, which hadbecome an expert
.mouser for such winged prey, was
allowed to remain in their room,
and quickly assumed the duties of
guardian, Every night, as soon as
the, lay down, she took
her post by their hammock, and
no vampire alighted there after-
ward, except at the instant forfeit
of its life,
LIEUTENA:N'I' SHACKLE:1'ON.
Alan Who Almost Gained South
Pole Won't Go Afoot in London.
Lieut Shackleton, who got almost
within hailing distance of the South
Pole and then, though with miller
more difficulty, got back to civiliza-
tion 'again, is a persistently young
man, handsome of visage, pleasant
and entirely unaffected of speech.
He was sometime ago secretary
of the Royal, Scottish Geographical
po
Society, a st which iso easilysob
tamed by virtue of his service to
geography in the Antarctic regions.
Between the conclusion of the Dis-
covery expedition and his assump-
tion of his duties in Edinburgh he
was attached' to the literary staff
of O. Arthur Pearson's publica-
tione, and in his capacity as a
journalist made himself deservedly
popular.
According to the Bystander, a
prejudice` of Lieut. Shackleton is
one he has against the pastime of
walking.. He would invariably
drive up and to away from his
literary duties in a brougham, and
was once known to be seriously.
angry because there was no cab to.
take him across the road,
3r---
Airing 'your troubles will not miti-
gate them.
Truth may have hid, at the bottom
of a well because it was unable to
make falsehood ashamed of itself,
It is estimated that the popula-
tion of the British Empire is 490,-
000,000, of whom 348,000,000 are na-
tive races.
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VEl+!MIA,
Ono of the ino.'sb dreadful farms
that autointosioatiou, oz' solLpof•
sfiuing, can take is that known as
urellna, so called bocauso it bas
been thought to bo caused chiefly
by urea, ape of the waste pgroducts
os assimtletion which it is th prnv'
1000 of the e
This, However,kidisneys onlyboremova surmise.,
No one really knows what poison-
ous substance is the direct cause
of uremia, The kidneys perform
such important and necessary work
irthe economy of .the body that
anything which causes them to
"shirk their job" is a serious mat-
ter, and a refusal or an inability
sonpeediltheiy fr patalart. to work at all is
Uremia, is almost always there-
sult of a diseased state of the kid-
neys. A healthy, Icidney does its
work faithfully, and gets rid of
poisons before they can do any
harm; but diseased kidneys, and
especially kidneys afflicted with
Bright's disease, come to the time
when they are no longer equal to
their task, wheu day by day the
special poisons it is their function - ,M.
to—discard,- accumulate £lily
ars present in such force that they
are able to overthrow the whole
economy,
Many cases of Bright's disease
terminate by uremia, which is, as
a matter of fact, the natural out-
come, unless they are overtaken
by pneumonia or-sonro other acute
trouble. But some persons, who
have been apparently in good health
and have never suspected them-
selves, or been suspected. of any
kidney trouble, develop uremio
symptoms suddenly, and in those
oases active treatment started at
once may restore them to health,
at ]east for a time. This is a rea-
son why signs of uremia should be
recognized at once, especially by
persons who have the care of sick
people,
Extreme drowsiness associated
with headache and vomiting should
always be suspected, and immedi-
ate steps taken to start the kid-
neys to work, or tosetother or-
gans to work to help them out, by
strong purging and sweating. The
first symptonis may take :the form.
of a convulsion, of complete un-
consciousness,: and even of mania,.
but the more gradual onset is the
more common.
Tho drowsiness gradually be-
comes more and more marked until
it deepens into coma, which grows
more and more profound until
death conies, unless the active
treatment is successful.
Sometimes bleeding is resorted to
under the theory that rome of the
poison is in the blood, and that if
a great deal of it canbe removed
and then salt solution injected in-
to the vein, the blood remaining in
the body will be diluted and rho
poison consequently 'weakened. —
kouth's Companion.
DANGER IN EYE POULTICES.
Do not poultice an eye in any
circumstances whatever.. Bindieg a .
wet application aver an eye for
.several hours must 'damage that
eye, the assertions of ' those pro-
fessing tohave pers.nal experi-
ence in this to the contrary not-
withstanding. The failure to ag-
gravate an existing 'trouble by
binding a moist application over
an inflamed eye, which application
is supposed to remain for an entire.
night, can only be explained by ,
the supposition that a. guardian
angel has watched over that mis-
guided case and has displaced the
poultice before it had got in its fine
work.
All oculists. condemn the poultice
absolutely,' in every shape and in
every form. Tea leaves, bread and
milk, raw oysters, scraped beef,
scraped raw turnip or raw potato,
and the medley of other similar re-
medies popularly recommended are
one and all, capable of producing
irremediable damage to the integ-
rity of the.tissucs of the .visnal or
1
goo.
DANGERS OF THE CORSET.
Nations whose women are addicted
to the use of the corset are waking
up to a sense of the dangers arising
from that pernicious custom. Itus-
sia has forbidden girls to wear
corsets, and the Minister of Educe.
tion in Saxony (a kingdom of Ger-
many
er many containing nearly 3,000,000 in
population) has decreed that girls
attending public schools shall nob
use stays, The physical well-being
of the future generations depends
upon tee mothers, and women can-
not bo efficient mothers if they
possess deformed bodies, Parents
should take warning in time, and
let no foolish fashion prevent their
daughters from developing into
robust and symmetrical women.
Some men seem to be as anxious
to separate yon from ,your time as
others are to separate Boit from your
money,
Among the Finns and Norwegi-
ans there are many women sailors.
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